Random Win: The irl Fuck Ya thread

[BerenTebogo]

eating at Doe's Eat Place tonight. Havent hadnt it but heard great things, any input from southerners?

It was a good idea. The smallest size their non-mignon steaks come in is 1.5lbs. I've never had a place give me such a deep red rare steak either.

[Zetanio]

That place is fucking bonkers. My cousin took me to the one in BR, which I'm assuming you went to.

Those tamales are the truth.

[BerenTebogo]

That place is fucking bonkers. My cousin took me to the one in BR, which I'm assuming you went to.

Those tamales are the truth.

I had some gumbo instead of tamales to start

[Zetanio]

Mah man.

I never really eat gumbo up there. Either Grandma or one of my aunts has always got a metric ton of it around.

[Ksandra]

Fail that turned into a win:

Like 6? months ago my daughter wanted to take ballet lessons. So we ended up leaving the swim place we used to take the kids and signed up at the Glendale YMCA. We were able to sign up for the family package + their swim lessons for the same price as the old location, and they had ballet classes for free. I thought it was a good decision, but boy have I had some major frustrations with the place. The instructors themselves are great, but the way the place is run is ridiculous.

Some examples:

The ballet class is in the lower floor. Twice the teacher was out sick. Both times all the parents walked through the lobby, down the stairs and sat at the room where it's held for awhile, until someone had to go back to the lobby to see if the class was happening. The second time, we went to complain that they weren't notifying of the cancellation, the lobby person actually said to me, "Well I only just found out she cancelled 30 minutes ago." And I was like, "That's plenty of time to get up and go downstairs and tell us, or at least put a sign on the door so we're all not waiting."

I mean most of the girls have ballet outfits, you would think the lobby people would notice them walking through and saying something.

Another issue is they don't heat the pool and it's wayyy too cold for toddlers.


On Tuesday I showed up for my daughter's lesson to find out it was cancelled for the week (again no notification). A woman followed me back to the locker room where I was headed to get my daughter back into regular clothes. She told me she was frustrated, too, because her kids' lessons were also cancelled and she's paying for private ones (which is expensive). She told me about another Y that apparently is better, and she's switching there. I thought, "Eh, I'll do this place another month, and maybe check out the other Y."

Well, today they helped push me to check out the other place. I showed up again for my daughter's lesson (she has them twice a week). Once again, they were cancelled. And when I went to pay for this month's lessons? Her group was full. They had replaced her. They make you resign up every month instead of recurring, and they only let you sign a few days before the next set of lessons. So despite her being in those lessons already last month, because other people registered for it first in the day today, she is no longer signed up for lessons.

In a nutshell, you have to be like a mad viper to register your kid every month on the exact day they open up the lessons or you are fucked.

So, we up and left and went straight to the other place the woman told me about. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much nicer. Pool is heated. They have online services for paying/registering/etc. Can pay sooner than a few days before, etc. Facilities are overall much cleaner/nicer.

Best part, they can just move our account over to their location, so we don't have to pay another registration fee. We go back on Saturday to have my daughter be tested to see what level she belongs in.

[Moss]

It was a good idea. The smallest size their non-mignon steaks come in is 1.5lbs. I've never had a place give me such a deep red rare steak either.

That place is fucking bonkers. My cousin took me to the one in BR, which I'm assuming you went to.

Those tamales are the truth.

dafuq I was in BR for 6 years and never even heard of this place

[Airenn]

I'mma hand out some fuck yea's.

Fuck yea Sath, look at that steak god I'm fucking hungry I'd eat ten right now, and go into excruciating detail of how succulent it was plz

Fuck yea Ksan, go to the different location!

BANE JUST HAD A NIECE AND YOU FUCKERS AINT SAID GRATS YET? GRATS MAN!!!! I got a niece recently and she's adorable!!

[BerenTebogo]

dafuq I was in BR for 6 years and never even heard of this place

You really missed out.

Reheated with broiler after being out all night for someone's goodbye party:



Still delicious.

[BaneTheBrawler]

to be fair they're talking about what appears to be some delicious goddamn food. they'll work around to me eventually.


gonna go visit an old friend later today, then tomorrow mosey on over to my sister's, meet the new niece, celebrate my nephew's graduation. gonna be fun. be nice if i could bring my GF along, but she hasn't met my parents yet, and has plans of her own this weekend, so alas. next time perhaps.

[Ksandra]

Grats Bane!

[Zetanio]

They had mango at my breakfast place this morning.

Holy fuck it's like candy. Best Friday ever.

[Tokitoki]

One of my coworkers from Guatemala used to eat mango with a splash of lemon juice, hot sauce, and a sprinkle of salt. Shit was delicious.

[Byrthnoth]

Every person I know who hails from a location with native mango trees says that the mangos we get in the US are trash unworthy of consumption.

[Tokitoki]

I've been told it's really hard to find good mangoes, yeah. I don't believe it's impossible, just incredibly difficult.

[Zetanio]

If they can taste better than this I'll be fucking amazed. Soft, sweet and delicious.

[Melena]

Damn that steak looks delicious. Sadly all the steak places here are trash unless I want to go to Ruth Chris or test my sanity to go to Morton's in San Francisco.

And grats Bane on the new Niece. I'm assuming she'll have more lego's then she'll know what to do with as soon as she can appreciate them.

[Zetanio]

Wait, where in CA are you?

[dasva]

So I've started running up and down the stairs whenever my garmin watch tells me to walk... that's led to good things for me on it's own. But the real win is one of my fat coworkers has taken to doing similar sometimes. Granted he's doing it like 2 times a week for a minute or 2 but still it's a start. Guess I'm a positive role model now lol.

Also finding that no matter how bad my sinuses get some light exercise completely clears me up. Like I can be at the point I'm having difficulty getting enough air and bam few run up a flight or 2 of stairs completely clear and feeling great. I'm also starting to think I don't even actually need the exercise and just need an elevated heart rate as other things that increase heart rate like pain or stimulants seem to work too. ie I don't have sinus problems during my migraines or shortly after drinking strong coffee. Which in an odd win/fail might be why my sinuses feel worse this year since this is the best my migraines have been in almost 20 years. Might have to bust out the heart rate monitor to track this down and maintain certain rates lol

edit: ha now he's asking nutrition/diet advice. Winning

[Astylla]

Wait, where in CA are you?

Bay Area but he won't go into the city for anything. Don't listen to him..

[archibaldcrane]

That feeling when ANOTHER pilot you edited gets picked up for series.

That's 4 now. #yeeaaahboooyiieee